Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Daily ObjectivesExpand a writing

topicIdentify

significance/themeRespond efficiently

and effectively to writers

Today’s Agenda1. Quick write:

Friendship2. Zoom in

Procedures3. Zoom in Practice

Target Word

Term Meaning Example

Significance n. importance ormeaning of something

“Friendship Definition: Mimicking E.B. White’s Sentence Frames”

10 min. writing

WRITING IDEAS FROM READING

Reading Source Ideas

“Democracy”The New -repetitionp. 10 Yorker -definition

writing-using

metaphors

Zooming In

What is most interesting here? In photography terms… Wide-angle: a friend request Zoom lens: One of the newer terms on the planet. Hasn’t been around all that

often, at least not in the context of which we are speaking right now. An odd phrase, if you ask me. If someone is requesting to be your friend, I certainly hope you have met them first. Often this is not the case. Not very safe, but let’s just think about it in a “friend” context. How could you ever possibly become true “friends” with someone on Facebook? This is especially true if you have a lot of friends in your friends list (another new phrase). You might see an update now and then, but unless you troll, how much can you truly know about that person. You’re assuming they are telling the truth about themselves, but what is really stopping them from setting up a new identity and behind the 15 year-old girl from New York, there’s really a fat 43 year-old man from Oregon who never leaves his home? I mean, my son has a Facebook page for a stuffed animal. Funny. They post stupid comments, but it does make you question: Just how honest are people on Facebook?

“Zooming in on an Idea”

Underline your three options 10 min. quick write

Wide angle: a cold, rainy day Zoom in: The clouds outside are definitely slate gray. Full of

moisture, they saturate the sky like bags full of wet cotton balls. The wind blows from the north, giving a normally beautiful, rainy day, an icy edge. It’s cold outside, and that changes everything. Life seems to still as people await the end of the rain, probably glancing out of the window every once in a while to check for one hopeful ray of sunshine. No such luck. We are in for the long haul. The clouds stretch far out in the distance like upside-down, ocean waves. And for a moment, I become disoriented.

“Zooming in on an Idea”

Double Underline if you pick a second option

10 min. quick write

Wide angle: a huge bag of moneyZoom in:

Strategies of Good Writers

Writers choose subjects that have special meaning to them

Writers focus on the most important ideas and subtopics

Writers organize their writing into leads, subtopics, and closings

Writers expand on these subtopics and use details to emphasize them

Writers use strategies like lists, varied sentences, repetition, and metaphor to make their ideas clear to the reader.